"The folks over at MISSING LINK are offering their buddies and clients a free tattoo. This threw me into a panic. And I quickly pulled out one of my
favorite of Roger von Oech's WHACK PACK cards... 'Solve the Right
Problem'. I love this image. I copied von Oech's question mark into ArtRage, and started messing
around with it. The red/pink background is meant to represent skin tone." [shown at left]

"This didn't hurt much at all. It was more of a sort of vibrating vague sting, that numbed out after about ten minutes. When the colors settle, this will be a very painterly piece of skin.
It's not discernible now, but everything is blended and shaded and
graded. I'll post a pic in a week or so, when it's looking more like it
ought to."

Roy also made a series of short videos about the tattooing process which can be found here.

Good luck with your tattoo, Roy! Tell all your friends who like it to go to creativethink.com!

Thanks mightily for your call last night! (South African time, it was sometime after midnight, so I only heard your voice message in the morning.)

I have to say that it was thrilling for me to hear from one of my two creativity gurus! (The other one is Michael Michalko.)

My right arm already has a tatt on it. If you click the link on my name in this message, you'll get through to an illustration I made of it. I think I'll have to take a photo of it at some point. Rest assured... It's real. It reads 'Right Arm. Property of Roy Blumenthal.' It's at: http://flickr.com/photos/royblumenthal/310586394

Thank you so much for writing about the process. And for not suing me for copyright infringement!

I hope one day to be able to do a visual facilitation at one of your talks. My portfolio's online at http://snipurl.com/visualfacilitation. I make live visual interpretations of the content of talks, seminars, workshops, and meetings. This is all done digitally on a tablet pc. Which is hooked up to a video projector, with my paintings-in-progress being screened in realtime.